ReviewBiotechnology advances2019
Emerging strategies for engineering microbial communities.
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- Phyto-Algal Consortia as a Complementary System for Wastewater Treatment and Biorefinery.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Engineering coupled consortia-based biosensors for diagnostic.Nature communications · 2025Article
- A predatory gene drive for targeted control of self-transmissible plasmids.Science advances · 2025Article
- Asymmetric metabolic adaptations undermine stability in microbial syntrophy.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Diversity and interdomain networks of bacterial, pico-protist and nano-protist communities in a marine ranching.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Assembly of functional microbial ecosystems: from molecular circuits to communities.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2024Review
- Engineered cross-feeding creates inter- and intra-species synthetic yeast communities with enhanced bioproduction.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Higher-order interactions and emergent properties of microbial communities: The power of synthetic ecology.Heliyon · 2024Review
- MicroMPN: methods and software for high-throughput screening of microbe suppression in mixed populations.Microbiology spectrum · 2024Article
- A molecular toolkit of cross-feeding strains for engineering synthetic yeast communities.Nature microbiology · 2024Article
- Synthetic Homoserine Lactone Sensors for Gram-PositiveACS synthetic biology · 2024Article
- Coexistence of specialist and generalist species within mixed plastic derivative-utilizing microbial communities.Microbiome · 2023Article
- Mediation of Bacterial Interactions via a Novel Membrane-Based Segregator to Enhance Biological Nitrogen Removal.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Addressable and adaptable intercellular communication via DNA messaging.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Microbiome engineering for bioremediation of emerging pollutants.Bioprocess and biosystems engineering · 2023Review
- Dissecting the HGT network of carbon metabolic genes in soil-borne microbiota.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Ecological landscapes guide the assembly of optimal microbial communities.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
From biosynthesis to bioremediation, microbes have been engineered to address a variety of biotechnological applications. A promising direction in these endeavors is harnessing the power of designer microbial consortia that consist of multiple populations with well-defined interactions. Consortia can accomplish tasks that are difficult or potentially impossible to achieve using monocultures. Despite their potential, the rules underlying microbial community maintenance and function (i.e. the task the consortium is engineered to carry out) are not well defined, though rapid progress is being made. This limited understanding is in part due to the greater challenges associated with increased complexity when dealing with multi-population interactions. Here, we review key features and design strategies that emerge from the analysis of both natural and engineered microbial communities. These strategies can provide new insights into natural consortia and expand the toolbox available to engineers working to develop novel synthetic consortia.
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